Teacher
Teacher
I am an award-winning educator with more than a decade of experience teaching undergraduate students across community college and four-year university settings. I have taught over 480 credit hours in communication, ethics, humanities, and business, with a focus on helping students translate theory into lived, professional, and civic practice.
My teaching is interdisciplinary by design. I work with students who are often encountering complex ideas for the first time, and I specialize in making those ideas usable rather than abstract. Across courses, I emphasize clarity of thought, ethical reasoning, effective communication, and the ability to apply concepts to real-world situations students will actually face.
I have taught in fully in-person, hybrid, and fully online environments, including designing and delivering courses created specifically for asynchronous and video-based instruction. My approach centers on accessibility, relevance, and future-facing skill development, particularly for students navigating uncertain professional and technological landscapes.
Teaching Focus Areas
Communication
Business Communication
Undergraduate writing-intensive courses focused on professional communication expectations, workplace writing, and organizational messaging. Students develop practical communication skills aligned with real on-the-job requirements.
Taught at Coconino Community College and Northern Arizona University.
Public Speaking and Fundamentals of Speech Communication
Performance-based undergraduate courses emphasizing speech writing, delivery, critique, and audience awareness. Instruction focuses on how public speaking functions across careers rather than as a purely academic exercise.
Taught at Coconino Community College.
Public Speaking Online Edition
A fully online performance course designed to prepare students for video-based communication. Students produced speeches delivered via recorded video and audio, gaining experience relevant to remote work, interviewing, social media production, and digital presentation environments.
Course design and instruction at Coconino Community College.
Ethics and Applied Business
Business Ethics
A large-enrollment undergraduate course examining ethical decision-making in contemporary business contexts. Students worked through realistic scenarios involving leadership, responsibility, and organizational pressure, emphasizing applied ethical reasoning rather than abstract moral theory.
Taught at Northern Arizona University in both in-person and asynchronous online formats.
Business Ethics Honors
An intensive research and writing course allowing students to pursue advanced ethical analysis within a company or industry of their choosing.
Taught at Northern Arizona University.
Humanities
Cultural Pluralism in the United States
An active learning course focused on U.S. cultural history, immigration, migration, and pluralism. Students developed critical thinking and communication skills through discussion, peer teaching, and applied writing.
Taught at Bowling Green State University.
Humanities II
An online course examining cultural history from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries, using literature, art, performance, and architecture to understand the contemporary United States.
Taught at Coconino Community College.
Management and Business Foundations
Concepts in Management
An undergraduate course for non-business majors introducing leadership, organizational behavior, and management theory, with an emphasis on practical application.
Taught at Northern Arizona University.
Accounting and Financial Systems
Courses covering small business bookkeeping, financial statements, and accounting systems, including applied instruction using QuickBooks and other electronic accounting tools.
Taught at Coconino Community College.
Marketing
Undergraduate marketing courses focused on applying theoretical concepts to functional marketing plans for existing or proposed organizations. Honors sections emphasized independent research and advanced analysis.
Taught at Northern Arizona University.
Teaching Philosophy
Across disciplines, my teaching centers on the belief that education should increase students’ sense of agency rather than simply transfer information. I encourage students to see course material as a lens for understanding their own experiences, future work, and participation in society.
Whether teaching communication, ethics, or cultural history, my goal is the same. Students should leave my courses better equipped to think clearly, communicate effectively, and make informed decisions in complex environments.
Recognition
Faculty of the Year Award
Coconino Community College